Black Diggers
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All Themes Australian Nationhood and Indigenous Dispossession Racism War, Violence, and Shell Shock History, Memory, and the Archive
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All Characters Nigel Harry Ern Archie Laurie Mick Bertie Tommy Norm Bob Taxidermist A Ghost Bertie’s Mom Bertie’s Grandad Stan
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All Terms Abbeville Aborigines’ Protection Boards ADF AIF Allied Forces Amiens ANZAC Anzac Day Australian Museum, Sydney Barambah Beersheba, Palestine Bellender Ker, Queensland Boundary Hotel, Brisbane Bullecourt Callan Park Canaan Castlereagh Street Cherbourg Coniston Massacre Dardanelles Diggers Erskineville Forest Lodge, Sydney Frying Pan Creek, NSW Glebe George Street Gwyndir River Half-Caste Iron Cove Jordan River The Light Horse Maranoa Maori – Messines Mount Gambier Murgon Murrumbidgee New South Wales No Man’s Land Palarver Passchendaele Petrie Terrace Picaninny Polygon Wood Pozieres PTSD Queen Street Queensland Red Cross RSL Soldier Settlement Commission South African Truth and Reconciliation Commission Southern Cross Torres Strait Islanders Villers-Bretonneux Western District, Victoria Woolloomooloo Ypres Zössen POW Camp
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Black Diggers

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